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by evercast 1716 days ago
OpenJDK serves as the upstream for many Java distributions (maybe all?) and it has no notion of LTS. LTS is just something to which vendors commit as outlined at https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/17/ : “JDK 17 will be a long-term support (LTS) release from most vendors.”.

In other words, OpenJDK does not follow any LTS/non-LTS release cycle. Hence there is nothing special about Java 17 vs 16 when it comes to stability.